학술논문

Piezoelectric thin film platform for ultrasound transducer arrays
Document Type
Conference
Source
2011 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 2011 IEEE International. :196-199 Oct, 2011
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transducers
Ultrasonic imaging
Acoustic beams
Silicon
Acoustics
Ultrasonic variables measurement
Sensors
piezoelectric thin film technology platform
piezoelectric MEMs
piezoelectric thin film ultrasound transducers
Language
ISSN
1051-0117
1948-5727
1948-5719
Abstract
A piezoelectric thin film MEMs technology platform has been developed that enables processing of miniaturized ultrasound transducer arrays with only minimum 2 mask steps. The thin film ultrasound transducer arrays are operating in the frequency range of > 50 kHz up to > 10 MHz. A new class of ultrasound sensors for e.g. proximity sensing and imaging has been developed.